#BWLGBTI Day 3 Part 2: Community-based research is still important

    Dwayne Steward LGBTQ Health Advocate Columbus Public Health     We’ve come to the end of the LGBTI Health Research Conference at Baldwin Wallace University. This has been a very life-changing experience, for which I am truly grateful. Being in the room with so many experts that have and are currently making groundbreaking changes inContinue reading “#BWLGBTI Day 3 Part 2: Community-based research is still important”

#BWLBGTI Day 2 Post-Lunch: Revisiting sexual health

Dwayne Steward  LGBTQ Health Advocate Columbus Public Health After lunch at day 2 of the LGBTI Health Research Conference at Baldwin Wallace is all about sexual health. Historically this would have been the bulk of such a conference as this. As most of us know, pathology-focused research on homosexuality and gender diversity, along with theContinue reading “#BWLBGTI Day 2 Post-Lunch: Revisiting sexual health”

#BWLGBTI Day 3 Part 1: The IOM Report

   Dwayne Steward  LGBTQ Health Advocate  Columbus Public Health       Back at Baldwin Wallace for the last day of the LGBTI Health Research Conference and the morning is being spent on very detailed analysis of the Institute of Medicine‘s National Institutes of Health-commissioned 2011 report “The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and TransgenderContinue reading “#BWLGBTI Day 3 Part 1: The IOM Report”

Putting the I in LGBTQI

    E. Shor, MPH Wisconsin Population Health Service Fellow through UW-Madison   Blogging Live from: the LGBTI Health Research Conference   This has been a jam-packed day so far and it is only half over at the LGBTI Health Research Conference. There have been speakers addressing data collection on sexual orientation and gender identity,Continue reading “Putting the I in LGBTQI”

#BWLGBTI Day 2: Perfect time, perfect place

Dwayne Steward LGBTQ Health Advocate  Columbus Public Health As I continue into the second day of the LGBTI Health Research Conference at Baldwin Wallace University, it struck me as pretty powerful that the BW’s president Robert Helmer opened the first day of seminars with the words “this is the perfect time and the perfect placeContinue reading “#BWLGBTI Day 2: Perfect time, perfect place”

Blogging scholarship announcement- LGBTI Health Research Conference, Aug.7-9 2014

 BLOGGING SCHOLARSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT- LGBTI Health Research Conference 2014 Cleveland, Ohio August 7th- 9th, 2014   APPLICATIONS DUE BY: Wednesday, July 16th, 2014 at 5pm EST   The Network for LGBT Health Equity is looking to send three LGBT health researchers or students to participate in, and blog about, The National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex Health ResearchContinue reading “Blogging scholarship announcement- LGBTI Health Research Conference, Aug.7-9 2014”